Corrugated building structure with roof and wall corner reinforcing panel



Feb. 3, 1970 w. D.,BEHLEN 3,

' CORRUGATED BUILDING STRUCTURE WITH ROOF AND WALI-rCORNER REINFORCINGPANEL I Filed May 8, 1968 59 anfi ,Qrrozmeys United States Patent3,492,765 CORRUGATED BUILDING STRUCTURE WITH ROOF AND WALL CORNERREINFORCING PANEL Walter D. Behlen, Columbus, Nebr., assignor to BehlenManufacturing Company, Inc., Columbus, Nebr., a corporation of NebraskaFiled May 8, 1968, Ser. No. 727,514 Int. Cl. E04b 7/06 US Cl. 52l8Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A building structure includingoppositely disposed side walls with a roof section secured thereto andextending therebetween. The side walls and roof section are comprised ofa plurality of panels having major and minor corrugations formedtherein. The major and minor corrugations of the roof panels are inalignment with the major and minor corrugations in the wall panels. An

angularly disposed support means is secured to each of e Conventionalmetal buildings usually consist of oppositely disposed wall sectionshaving a roof section secured thereto and extending thereacross. Thewall sections and the roof section are commonly constructed of aplurality of panels having some form of arcuate configuration providedtherein such as corrugations or the like. The roof panels are usuallysecured to the upper ends of the wall panels by bolts or the likeextending therethrough. However, these conventional building structuresare less than satisfactory in that the roof sections will not supportany appreciable load imposed thereon. The portion of the load which isimposed on the roof is transferred to the bolted point of connectionbetween it and the wall thereby creating a great stress on theconnection. This point of connection is not as rigid as required and infact acts somewhat like a hinge connection. The stress which is imposedin the point of connection between the roof section and the wall sectionsometimes causes structural failure thereof. The possibility of suchstructural failure creates a serious limitation in the design of anybuilding under consideration.

Therefore, it is a principal object of this invention to provide abuilding structure which is extremely strong.

A further object of this invention is to provide a building structureincluding an angularly disposed support means extending between the roofsection and the wall section thereof.

A further object of this invention is to provide a building structurewherein major and minor corrugations of wall panels, roof panels,support panels and reinforcing panels are in alignment with each other.

A further object of this invention is to provide a building structurewhich prevents structural failures.

A further object of this invention is to provide a building structureincluding a unique means for securing the roof section to the wallsection.

A further object of this invention is to provide a building structureincluding a pair of angularly disposed roof sections which are securedtogether at their inner ends, the inner ends of the roof sections beingbent and secured together.

A further object of this invention is to provide a building structurewhich is economical of manufacture, durable in use and refined inappearance.

These and other objects will be apparent to those skilled in the art.

This invention consists in the construction, arrangcments, andcombination of the various parts of the device, whereby the objectscontemplated are attained as hereinafter more fully set forth,specifically pointed out in the claims, and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is an end view of the building structure;

FIG. 2 is a fragmentary section view of a portion of the buildingstructure;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged sectional view as seen along lines 33 of FIG. 2;and

FIG. 4 is an enlarged sectional view as seen along lines 4-4 of FIG. 2.

The building structure of this invention is generally designated by thereference numeral 10 and includes oppositely disposed wall sections 12,14- and angularly disposed roof sections 16 and 18. Inasmuch as wallsections 12 and 14 are identical and inasmuch as roof sections 16 and 18are identical, only wall section 12 and roof section 16 will bedescribed in detail.

The numeral 20 generally designates a footing which is provided on thesupporting surface 22 and which is designed to support the wall section12 as illustrated in the drawings. Wall section 12 is comprised of aplurality of wall panels 22 which are secured at their lower ends to thefooting 20 by bolts 24 extending through the flange 26 provided at thelower end of the wall panels 22. Wall panels 22 are vertically disposedand are secured at their side edges to the adjacent wall panels by anyconventional means such as bolts or the like extending therethrough. Asseen in FIGS. 2 and 4, each of the wall panels 22 have a plurality ofalternately disposed arcuate corrugations 28 formed therein which extendin continuous and uninterrupted fashion from one end of the panel to theother. As seen in FIG. 4, each of the wall panels 22 are bent into aplurality of alternately disposed larger arcuate corrugations 30 whichare co-extensive with the corrugations 28 and which also extend incontinuous and uninterrupted fashion from one end of the panels to theother. As seen in FIG. 4, the arcuate neutral axis of the corrugations28 form a trigonometric sine wave with respect to the straight neutralaxis of the larger corrugations 30.

The roof section 16 is comprised of a plurality of roof panels 32 whichare secured at their side edges to the adjacent roof panels by anyconventional means such as bolts or the like. Each of the roof panels 32are provided with a plurality of alternately disposed arcuatecorrugations 34 formed therein which extend in continuous anduninterrupted fashion from one end of the panel to the other. As seen inFIG. 3, each of the panels 32 are bent into a plurality of alternatelydisposed larger arcuate corrugations 36 which are co-extensive with thecorrugations 34 and which also extend in continuous and uninterruptedfashion from one end of the panels to the other. The panels 32 areidentical to the panels 22 and it can be seen that the arcuate neutralaxis of the corrugations 34 form a trigonometric sine wave with respectto the straight neutral axis of the corrugations 36. The roof panels 32extend over the upper end of the wall panels 22 and may be secured attheir point of connection 38 if desired by extending bolts through thesame. The corrugations 34 of the roof panels 32 are in alignment withthe corrugations 28 and the wall panels 22 and the corrugations 36 andthe roof panels 32 are in alignment with the corrugations 30 in the wallpanels 22.

The numeral 40 generally designates a reinforcing panel means which iscomprised of a plurality of reinforcing panels 42 which are positionedadjacent the inside surface of the wall panels 22. The reinforcingpanels 42 are identical to the wall panels 22 and viewed in section(FIG. 4) except that the length of the panels 42 is less than the panels22. As seen in FIG. 4, each of the reinforcing panels 42 are providedwith a plurality of alternately disposed arcuate corrugations 44 formedtherein as well as a plurality of alternately disposed larger arcuatecorrugations 46 which are co-extensive with the corrugations 44. Each ofthe corrugations 44 and 46 extend in continuous and uninterruptedfashion from one end of the panel 42 to the other. As seen in FIG. 4,the corrugations 44 are in alignment with the corrugations 28 and thecorrugations 46 are in alignment with the corrugations 30. The numeral48 generally designates a reinforcing panel means which is comprised ofa plurality of reinforcing panels 50 positioned adjacent the undersideof the roof panels 32 as illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3. The reinforcingpanels 50 are identical to the roof panels 32 when viewed in section andinclude a plurality of alternately disposed arcuate corrugations 52formed therein and a plurality of alternately disposed larger arcuatecorrugations 54 which are coextensive with the corrugations 52. Thecorrugations 52 and 54 extend in continuous and uninterrupted fashionfrom one end of the panels 50 to the other and the corrugations 52 arein alignment with the corrugations 34 in roof panels 32 and thecorrugations 54 are in alignment with the corrugations 36 in the roofpanels 32.

A supporting panel means 56 is secured to the roof section 16 and wallsection 12 and extends therebetween as illustrated in FIG. 2. Panelmeans 56 is comprised of a plurality of supporting panels 58 having aflange 60 provided at their upper ends and a flange 62 provided at theirlower ends. Each of the panels 58 have a plurality of alternatelydisposed arcuate corrugations 64 formed therein as well as a pluralityof alternately disposed larger arcuate corrugations 66 which areco-extensive with the corrugations 64. The corrugations 64 and 66 extendin a continuous and uninterrupted fashion from one end of the panels 58to the other. A plurality of bolts 68 extend through the flange 60 ofsupporting panels 58, reinforcing panels 50 and roof panels 32 as bestillustrated in FIG. 2. A plurality of bolts 70 extend through flange 62of the supporting panels 58, reinforcing panels 42 and wall panels 22 asalso best illustrated in FIG. 2. The corrugations 64 in panels 58 are inalignment with the corrugations 44 in reinforcing panels 42 and are inalignment with the corrugations 28 of the wall panels 22. Likewise, thecorrugations 66 of supporting panels 58 are in alignment with thecorrugations 46 of the reinforcing panels 42 and the corrugations 30 inthe wall panels 22. The corrugations 64 of the supporting panels 58 arein alignment with the corrugations 52 of the reinforcing panels 50 andare in alignment with the corrugations 34 in the roof panels 32.Likewise, the corrugations 66 in the supporting panels 58 are inalignment with the corrugations 64 in the reinforcing panels 50 and arein alignment with the corrugations 36 in the roof panels 32. Thus, thelarge corrugations in the building structure are in alignment from theroof panels 32, reinforcing panels 50, supporting panels 58, reinforcingpanels 42 and wall panels 22. Further, the small corrugations are alsoin alignment through the roof panels 32, reinforcing panels 50,supporting panels 58, reinforcing panels 42 and wall panels 22.

As viewed in FIG. 1, the inner ends of the roof sections 16 and 18 arebent to form a horizontal portion 72 and 74 respectively which arepositioned adjacent each other in a superimposed condition and whereinthe corrugations in the roof panels of the roof section 16 would be inalignment with the corrugations in the roof panels of the roof section18. It i p ssible that the reinforcing panels 42 and 50 can be omittedfrom some building structures if necessary but the preferred buildingstructure includes these reinforcing panels. It can be seen that anyload imposed on the roof of the building causes the load to bedissipated over a larger area due to the fact that some of the load willbe transferred to the reinforcing panel means 48, supporting panel means56, reinforcing panel means 40 and the wall panels 22. The load whichwould normally be transferred to the connection point 38 is thusdissipated or transferred to a much greater area thereby eliminating anypossibility of structural failure in the building. The reinforcingpanels 42 and 50 can be of any desired length and which would dependupon the anticipated load which will be imposed on the roof structure.The supporting panel means 56 provides a more rigid connection betweenthe roof section and the wall section and eliminates the hinge typeconnection which is normally provided at point 38 in conventionalbuilding structures. It has been found that the building structure ofthis invention is able to withstand sufficiently greater loads than thatwhich is possible with conventional building structures. The fact thatthe small or minor corrugations and large or major corrugations are inalignment from the roof structure through the reinforcing panels,supporting panels to the wall panels insures that the load imposed onthe roof section will be transferred over a broad area without anypossibility of the load being transferred to an undesirable small area.

Thus it can be seen that the building structure accomplishes at leastall of its stated objectives.

Some changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of mybuilding structure without departing from the real spirt and purpose ofmy invention, and it is my intention to cover by my claims, any modifiedforms of structure or use of mechanical equivalents which may bereasonably included within their scope.

I claim:

1. In a building structure:

at least one wall section comprised of a plurality of upstanding wallpanels, each of said wall panels having a plurality of alternatelydisposed arcuate corrugations extending in continuous and uninterruptedfashion from' one end of the panel to the other,

a roof section secured to said wall section and extending therefrom,said roof section being comprised of a plurality of roof panels having aplurality of alternately disposed arcuate corrugations extending incontinuous and uninterrupted fashion from one end to the other,

said corrugations in said wall panels being in alignment with saidcorrugations in said roof panels,

a support means secured to said wall section and said roof section andextending therebetween, said support means being comprised of aplurality of support panels having a plurality of corrugations extendingin continuous and uninterrupted fashion from one end to the other, saidcorrugations in said support panels being in alignment with saidcorrugations in said wall panels and said roof panels,

a first reinforcing panels means positioned between the upper ends ofsaid support panels and said roof panels, a second reinforcing panelmeans positioned between the lower end of said support panels and saidwall panels, said first and second reinforcing panel means beingcomprised of a plurality of reinforcing panels each having a pluralityof alter- .nately disposed arcuate corrugations extending in continuousand uninterrupted fashion from one end to the other, said corrugationsin said reinforcing panels being in alignment with the corrugations insaid support panels, said roof panels and said wall panels,

each of the panels of said first and second reinforcing panel meanshaving upper and lower ends,

the upper ends of said support panels being secured to said firstreinforcing panel means intermediate the lengths of the panels of saidfirst reinforcing panel means, the lower ends of said support panelsbeing secured to said second reinforcing panel means intermediate thelengths of the panels of said second reinforcing means.

2. The structure of claim 1 wherein said support panels have arcuateflanges at their lower ends which are secured to said wall panels andsaid second reinforcing panel means in overlying engagement therewithand wherein said support panels have arcuate flanges at their upper endswhich are secured to said roof panels and said first reinforcing panelmeans in overlying engagement therewith.

3. The structure of claim 1 wherein each of said panels are bent into aplurality of alternately disposed larger arcuate corrugations which areco-extensive with said first mentioned corrugations and which alsoextend in continuous and uninterrupted fashion from one end of saidpanels to the other, the arcuate neutral axis of said first mentionedcorrugations forming a trigonometric sine wave with respect to thestraight neutral axis of said larger corrugations, said largecorrugations in said wall panels, said roof panels, said reinforcingpanels and said support panels all being in alignment.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,330,819 10/1943 Faure et a1.5290 2,742,114 4/ 1956 Behlen 52-630 X FOREIGN PATENTS 214,576 7/1956Australia. 1,23 8,732 7/ 1960 France.

540,925 11/ 1941 Great Britain.

50,008 9/1921 Sweden.

ALFRED C. PERHAM, Primary Examiner US Cl. X.R.

